Black Tourmaline with Mica Inclusions 2.5kg

For flexibility that doesn't mean losing your shape.

Mica is a family of silicate minerals defined by one striking property: perfect basal cleavage, meaning it splits into thin, flexible sheets almost as easily as peeling a page from a book. Before glass was widely affordable, thin mica sheets — sold as isinglass — were used as heat-resistant windows in stoves and lanterns. The family includes several distinct minerals: clear muscovite, black biotite, and lithium-rich lepidolite, all sharing the same layered structure but differing in colour and trace chemistry.

Its sheets are thin enough to be genuinely translucent, letting light pass through in soft, shifting bands.

Mica is worked with for flexibility and adaptability — bending with pressure rather than breaking under it. It sits with the crown.

Sheri chooses every piece by hand, cleanses it, and charges it before it's packed here on the Gold Coast.

Sheets can flake apart with rough handling — keep it somewhere it won't be knocked about.

For the doorway, the desk, or the day you know will ask a lot.

Black tourmaline forms in long striated columns, and it's one of the few minerals that generates an electrical charge under pressure or heat — Dutch traders in the 1700s used heated tourmaline to pull ash out of their meerschaum pipes, and called it aschentrekker, ash-puller.

That property is part of why it became the classic protective stone. Where other crystals open, amplify or invite, tourmaline holds a boundary. It's worked with for grounding and for shielding — placed by an entrance, kept on a desk, or carried when the day is going to be demanding.

It sits with the root, the centre associated with safety and belonging. People who own one crystal for protection usually own this one.

Sheri chooses every piece by hand, cleanses it, and charges it before it's packed here on the Gold Coast.

Practical note: this is the stone most often recommended near a workspace or a screen.